What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why quantum computing is the first real shift in computing history and what it makes possible

- The three most urgent challenges quantum + AI could help humanity solve: disease, power, and agriculture

- How curiosity and “sci-curiosity” are the keys to preparing kids for the future

- Why adaptability, not specific skills, will define success in the next decade

- The role of psilocybin and psychedelics in healing trauma and opening to purpose

- The connection between love, purpose, and creating technologies for abundance

- Why we are living in the greatest time in human history to learn, create, and share knowledge

About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

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Love Conquers Fear on Apple: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-conquers-fear/id1841734456⁠

About Whurley:

William Hurley, known as Whurley, is a pioneering technologist, entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a company making quantum computing accessible to innovators worldwide. A serial founder, he previously co-founded Chaotic Moon Studios and Honest Dollar (acquired by Goldman Sachs). Recognized globally as one of the most influential voices in quantum and emerging technologies, Whurley has advised governments, Fortune 500 companies, and research institutions on the future of computing. His mission is to democratize access to science and technology, helping humanity tackle its greatest challenges from curing disease to creating sustainable energy - while grounding innovation in love and human purpose.

Whurley’s website: https://www.whurley.com

Whurley on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whurley/

Timestamps:

00:00 - Preview

01:30 - The next 10–15 years

02:05 - Short stories, the Tao Te Ching, and framing science + spirit

03:24 - Introducing Whurley

13:06 - Our fate as a species: the most significant consequential moment in time

22:10 - Whurley’s childhood

26:00 - Apple years (1993): mentors, FireWire/set-top lessons: being best, not first

32:00 - Launch of Chaotic Moon Studios and Honest Dollar: happiness doesn’t come from success, Goldman takeaways

34:00 - Strangeworks beginning

36:00 - Fun and profit → im making a change → I’m going to empower millions of other people

37:06 - Whurley’s talk in Dubai: The Power of a Billion Minds

40:00 - Unity: Team Humanity, synchronicities in ancient spirituality

49:50 - The massive pace of acceleration, more on spirituality, and addressing fear

59:30 - Quantum 101 - what it is and why it matters

1:00:30 - Qubits explained: why quantum is a new era in computing

1:06:07 - How quantum helps reach abundance: disease, power, agriculture

1:12:00 - Democratizing science for the next generation

1:20:10 - Education’s rapid remake; anyone can learn anything with AI

1:26:00 - AI as research partner: Gemini, Aqua, LM Studio; buying back time

1:45:00 - Mass personalization ahead: billions of products and services

1:50:01 - Spiritual turn: purpose, divine intervention, love, and the nature of our reality

1:55:19 - Whurley’s near-death experience; psilocybin therapy and healing

2:02:46 - “The universe is rooted in love”